RACE - The Power of an Illusion | PBS(2003)

Introduced by Li Zhang, an anthropology professor at our school, the author of the Strangers in the City

Race is created by those who benefit from the social system. It cannot be erased what impacted on people’s life in terms of ethnicity and racial equality, but at least people can accept the fact that it was a cruel phrase for nonwhite people.

I actually think race is not socially constructed per se, it can be interpreted in a scientific way, like the gradational skin color; however, racial inferiority is a socially constructed idea.

有很多以前不了解或者忽略的视角

Race is not about biology, because it is a social construction. “Race was never just a matter of how you look, it’s about how people assign meaning to how you look.”

Critical race theory, 其实我并不是很同意，幸亏每节课都是open ended discussion👌

种族在美国一直是非常有争议的话题。它是我们区分他人的标签，被社会赋予了不同含义。 殊不知那些社会强加的差异没有任何科学理论支持：不同人种的人具有极其相同的基因。很多社会调查显示种族歧视一直都存在：资源和机遇的分配是金字塔状的，白人永远在顶端。但在这个强调政治正确的时代。人们畏惧讨论它。但不正视问题永远不能解决问题，只会使特权掌握在少数派的手中，对有色人种的偏见和歧视不断积累。

Race is an idea, biology and genetics are not quite reliable to distinguish races, it is more a matter built in social and cultural context. A documentary that challenges people's perception of race.

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